Background diorama / Flatheads to Boxers Engine Rebuilders : new tool, new room

[landman]

Mig welder is done.

 

Edited November 16, 2020 by landman

[crazyrichard]

nice !

[Mister Twister]

Looking real nice!

[landman]

I've started building a crankshaft grinding machine.

 

[landman]

Here's a little more progress. There is everything from the junkpile in there. Aluminum & copper tubing,MDF,  wooden dowels, sprue, strip styrene. The front handwheels are vinyl washers from my old sheet metal shed. The red "chuck" in the tailstock is from a ball point pen clicker. The grinding wheel is a cutting disc  from my rotary tool kit. Its housing is made from a business card and strip styrene. Who says it has to cost money to have fun.

[RiskiestLion]

man i love your builds lol its like your more a engine entusiaust them a car enthusiaust like me lol i hope to see more from you 

[landman]

Thank you Mr. O'Dell. A bit more progress. Added water tube to grinding wheel housing, adjusted the wheel mount to allw the wheel to reach the crankshaft,. Started working on the controls console.

 

 

Edited November 15, 2020 by landman

[gino]

beautiful work pat !   I love what you have done and will be watching this one ! thanks for sharing !

[landman]

The machine is being delivered to FTB. The controls module is already on the ground.

 

 

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[landman]

Installed in the "shop". Its location may change as other pieces of equipment arrive.

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[crazyjim]

OUTSTANDING!!!!

[landman]

Started work on the surface grinder.

I got this 8V71 engine in a trade. Its block will wind up in the dio. Starteddoctoring it to add detail.

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[landman]

Coming along. Working on the controls module.

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[landman]

Deck surfacer is done.

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[landman]

Continued to work on the block. Added material to give it visual interest. Filed the bottom of the block's skirts to make it look like bolt bosses.

Cut & filed small styrene squares to make crankcase webs.

 

 

Drilled out all the dots.

Made a bore pattern and proceeded to drill perfectly uneven holes. The drill kept walking.

Finally redecked it and went to where I should have gone in the first place: the drill press.

Feeling good again, I drilled some head bolt holes.

 

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[Dominik]

WOW!!! Awesome work. Wow!

[landman]

Ready for paint.

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[landman]

The 8V71 block has arrived at the shop for some work and is being prepped to load on to the deck grinder.. I almost had as much fun taking these pictures as the actual build.

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[wayne swayze]

Exceptionally amazing detail and workmanship Pat! Very impressive!

[landman]

Thanks Domink and Wayne. I kind of like the result myself.

[landman]

Made a jig to mount the block to the machine's ways.

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[Belugawrx]

Very Nice Pat

The shop is really coming along

Cheers

[landman]

Thanks Bruce. I think next is the line-boring machine. As well, I have almost doubled the area of the "storage room" that I was using as backdrop and I'll turn it into a restoration shop.

[landman]

Here is the new, larger room (double the size of the original) which will become the restoration shop. I will continue using it as back drop.

The left wall will be where most of the benches and tools will be.

The back wall is  the original back wall with a bathroom door in the new section.

 

The right wall is the original right wall with a little section added.

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[landman]

Painted and marked up the floor. Added an air line to the area ehere the work stations will be.